Essay Archive - Can Manufactured Bands Ever be Classified as 'Good' Art? The Effect of the Market on the Construction of Music
Can Manufactured Bands Ever be Classified as 'Good' Art? The Effect of the Market
on the Construction of Music
Manufactured bands now make up a major percentage of chart music today,
not least of them Take That, Boyzone, Bad Boys inc., East 17 and other all-boy
pop bands. In this essay I would like to discuss how the standard of art has
been lowered by the capitalistic system of the music industry, using a specific
example - "Upside Down", which is maybe the lat....
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